Mike Wozniak on his Taskmaster experience
You’ve got a long history with Taskmaster, haven’t you?
I did the prototype, the Edinburgh Fringe version. It was a lot of fun and we didn’t know what we were doing. It was an era when most of us were stand-ups or doing sketch shows, scrounging around trying to get whatever live work we could and Edinburgh was a standard part of the calendar.
Alex Horne just said to us, ‘Since you’re going to Edinburgh anyway, I’m going to send you something once a month to do’ and then we started getting all these peculiar tasks to do at the Fringe.
Audio of all 12 episodes on LP for the first time
Audio versions of all 12 episodes of Fawlty Towers are to be released as a full vinyl LP collection for the first time.
The release, which includes a 12-inch print signed by John Cleese, will be limited to 1,500 copies.
It comprises the original four BBC vinyl albums – Fawlty Towers, Second Sitting, At Your Service and A La Carte - plus two newly created collections, Plat Du Jour and Enjoy Your Stay, to cover all the episodes.
They include a narration from the late Andrew Sachs as Manuel which is unique to the vinyl versions and hasn’t been available since the original pressings.
.and at the London Palladium, too
Phil Wang is finally getting to record his first full-length Netflix special.
The comic had originally planned to tape his Philly Philly Wang Wang show at The Old Vic in London in May last year, announcing the news just a couple of weeks before lockdown hit.
However, the recording has now finally been rescheduled for the London Palladium on June 12.
Announcing the news, Wang posted on social media : ‘Thank you for your patience… feeling good about this one.’